Ports can play a pivotal role in the world’s decarbonization challenge by becoming renewable energy hubs, increasing their electricity generating capacity more than tenfold in the next 30 years with the help of offshore wind and hydrogen, a new report from DNV GL finds. By 2050, the total electricit
The Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) project has has recommended five ocean energy companies for support. This completes the second of three calls for applications in the Blue-GIFT project. The Blue-GIFT project, coordinated by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), aims to hel
The coronavirus pandemic will have a dramatic impact on energy supply and demand in the short term and will have lasting impacts once the pandemic dissipates but on its own will not be enough to advance the world’s progress towards the Paris climate ambitions, classification society DNV GL said.
Ireland needs to install 1 GW of offshore wind energy capacity by 2025 if it is to meet the new Irish government’s target of 5GW of installed offshore wind by 2030, SSE Renewables said. Paul Cooley, Director of Capital Projects at SSE Renewables, told the Energy Ireland ‘Offshore Energy Conference’
Equinor is leading a project to develop one of the UK’s – and the world’s – first at-scale facilities to produce hydrogen from natural gas in combination with carbon capture and storage.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an eventful time during which many steps were taken by governments, political organizations, the EU, and oil companies to plan a faster, more efficient, and more impactful energy transition. Here we look at a sequence of events working in favour of the transition to gr
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Swedish ferry company Stena Line has confirmed that the construction of its two new, larger E-Flexer ferries has begun in Weihai, China.
The world’s first international demonstration operation to transport hydrogen has begun.
BP has agreed to sell its global petrochemicals business to INEOS for a total consideration of $5 billion. It is the next strategic step in focusing portfolio as part of reinventing BP.
As the world looks to reach a cleaner future and stop relying on fossil fuels, we will need to replace this with other significant energy sources. Wind, sun and marine renewable energy, such as wave and tidal might help us reach this goal, but we will also have to take into account other building bl
EU has completed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on the Clean Energy for EU Islands initiative. Energy commissioner Kadri Simson has signed for the Commission alongside 14 member states. EU islands have the potential to pioneer the clean energy transition and this initiative puts them i
Construction of the longest subsea power cable in the world has now passed the halfway point. The North Sea Link, a joint venture project between National Grid and Norwegian system operator Statnett, is a subsea electricity cable that will connect the UK and Norwegian electricity grids. Prior to cab
Europa 2, a cruise ship operated by Germany-based cruise line Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, has had its cold ironing connection certified by the classification society DNV GL.
Cabling specialist NKT is now powering its power cable manufacturing with electricity from renewable energy. This is reducing its CO2-emissions from energy consumption by 66 per cent. For NKT, the move to green electricity is a step in supporting the global transition to renewables by reducing the c
